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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Grandstand Handicapper on May 18, 2025, 10:05:12 AM

Title: Racetrack offers incentive...
Post by: Grandstand Handicapper on May 18, 2025, 10:05:12 AM

I mean subsidy. No, I mean incentive. No, it's money! LOL.

https://www.drf.com/news/del-mar-offer-financial-incentives-former-northern-california-horses

Not that a harness track could afford this, and CA is an island unto itself, but the concept is just. Imagine a few local tracks competing with incentives for trainers and horses. More devisiveness.

Title: Re: Racetrack offers incentive...
Post by: Grandstand Handicapper on May 18, 2025, 10:06:27 AM

BTW, this is in addition to the Ship and Win program for OUT OF STATE trainers and horses.

Title: Re: Racetrack offers incentive...
Post by: The Exporter on May 18, 2025, 11:00:48 AM

Desperate to attract and retain a horse population. This is happening everywhere.

Title: Re: Racetrack offers incentive...
Post by: Grandstand Handicapper on May 18, 2025, 12:07:21 PM

Absolutely. Nature of the beast.

Title: Re: Racetrack offers incentive...
Post by: BoKnows on May 18, 2025, 10:52:49 PM

NYRA giving $1000 to owners and $500 to trainers for all horses finishing 4th or worse in overnight races during the week of the Belmont. $1500 and $750 for stakes races.

Title: Re: Racetrack offers incentive...
Post by: Dingus on May 18, 2025, 10:57:55 PM

One of my trotters was getting a 25% bonus in meadowlands races that were NJOS, and another was getting a 30% bonus for being a Maryland bred at Rosecroft.

Title: Re: Racetrack offers incentive...
Post by: PIGLAND on May 19, 2025, 07:39:38 AM

how about incentives for the customers?

Title: Re: Racetrack offers incentive...
Post by: Papillon on May 19, 2025, 09:28:53 AM

Quote from: PIGLAND on May 19, 2025, 07:39:38 AM

how about incentives for the customers?

we get a chicken outfit